Children are the poor man's wealth. Dan. Pr. 45
Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive your slightest defects. Fénélon.
Children blessings seem, but torments are, / When young, our folly, and when old, our fear. Otway.
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care is then that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them. Locke.
Children have more need of models than of critics. Joubert.
Children have scarcely any other fear than 50 that produced by strangeness. Jean Paul.
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent, that they detect and hunt out everything—the bad before all the rest. Goethe.
Children of night, of indigestion bred. Churchill of dreams.
Children of wealth or want, to each is given / One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven. Holmes.
Children see in their parents the past, they again in their children the future; and if we find more love in parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad indeed, but natural. Who does not fondle his hopes more than his recollections? Eötvös.